If you follow @POTUS, @WhiteHouse or the other official presidential handles on Twitter, you’ll have to re-follow them on Jan. 20 when President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes office.
When President Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, the official handles were taken over by the Trump White House with their followers intact, at the encouragement of the outgoing Obama administration.
This time, however, Twitter will not be transferring the followers when those handles shift to the new Biden administration. (@POTUS has more than 33 million followers; @WhiteHouse has more than 26 million.)
Instead, Twitter said on Tuesday that it would notify users who follow the Trump administration’s official accounts that those accounts will be archived, and that they can follow the Biden administration’s new iterations of those handles if they choose. (Mr. Trump’s @realDonaldTrump, which has 88.5 million followers, is a personal account and will not be part of the transfer.)
People who follow @JoeBiden or @KamalaHarris, which cumulatively have nearly 35 million followers, will be encouraged to also follow @Transition46, the Biden transition’s official account, Twitter said.
That account will become the new @WhiteHouse account, bringing along the transition account’s current 1.2 million followers, the Biden team said. But the other official accounts, such as @POTUS, @FLOTUS and @PressSec, will start from scratch.
A spokesman for the transition criticized Twitter’s change in policy, saying the Biden administration would prefer that Twitter repeat the handoff it did in 2017 rather than nudge people toward the new accounts.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether it had been involved in the discussions.
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